Our composite design expertise allows us to design components that outperform metals or alloys due to their excellent strength- and stiffness-to-weight ratios that we can achieve. New Frontier Technologies has experience in designing gridded lightweight structures for rocket bodies, chassis and struts for satellites, cylindrical structures with tailored properties to your thermal and mechanical requirements for precision instrumentation, and more,
Improving and enhancing your current design
We can take your existing parts or designs and work with you to develop an improved high-performance composite solution that exceeds your requirements.
New Frontier Technologies can:
- iterate, evolve and enhance your components throughout the design and manufacture process.
- analyse failed composite components to map the location and orientation of the carbon fibre reinforcement to inform designs that avoid a repeat failure.
- use simulations to test our designs against your requirements and advise on ways to further improve performance.
All our designs are optimised towards our additive manufacturing processes and utilise the whole functionality of our digital manufacturing platform.
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Repeatable High-Precision Manufacturing
This conical low-CTE tube showcases our ability to deliver mini-serial production of precision composite components, enabling consistent, high-quality manufacturing that’s ready to reproduce with minimal lead time.
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Dimensionally stable composite mount for optical satellite-based instrumentation
This near-zero axial coefficient of thermal expansion demonstrator ensures precise performance across extreme orbital temperature shifts - without the need for lens refocusing.
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Lightweight, low-CTE mirror mounts for ground-based DREAMS telescope
Designed for biaxial thermal and structural precision, this lightweight composite mirror mount was produced in under 9 hours and maintains lens alignment and focus during overnight observations.
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Iterating Design-for-Manufacture with 3D Diagnostics
This composite satellite strut was developed through our iterative design process combining AFP manufacturing and CT-based 3D diagnostics, enabling rapid optimisation of void content and mechanical properties.
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Digital twin and high-fidelity simulation
DigiTwin offers a complete solution for imaging, analysis and simulation of composite components to identify defects and predict mechanical behaviour.
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Gridded Composite Rocket Body
We designed and manufactured a Gridded Rocket Body, Payload Module utilising the superior performance of an orthogrid structure.
